Rob's Rants

According to the little spinning Revolver Map in the sidebar I’ve had 10,000 more or less unique visitors to this blog since 7/31 of 2009. I think that’s kind of impressive … Most seem to come looking for information on the T-Mobile Dash 3G phone, followed by people looking for residential generator information, followed by people looking for info on smoking meat and making bacon. No matter what brings them though, 10,000 is a pretty big number for an amateur like me.

One of the things I look at periodically is how people are finding my blog — it helps me understand what’s popular and what isn’t. Over the last 30 days though, one set of search terms pops up way more often than I would expect: “what will i look like in 10 years generator.” Now, I admit that I’ve written about my whole house backup generator, but into what search engine are people typing this string to find my page? I mean I’ve tried Google and Bing and I don’t even make the first few pages … and exactly who is searching for some application to help them artificially age a photo of them selves and then gets sidetracked into reading about my 12 KW backup generator. Weird. Here’s the proof:

Top Searches

Yes, I changed my theme again. The page menu on the old one wasn’t working for me and it had some real typographic quirks — like superscripts didn’t work, which was a real PITA on some of my posts. Hopefully this one is better and quicker. I have bit of configuring to do, but at first glance, I like it a lot.